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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Get fired up! Milwaukee Air & Water Show just weeks away - fox6now.com | MILWAUKEE (WITI) — We are just weeks away from the Milwaukee Air and Water Show! Among the performers this year, Milwaukee is welcoming back the Blue Angels. Organizers anticipate an increased showing just because of that, and have therefore expanded their reserved seating area for the show. They have also, through a careful selection process, confirmed several new acts to participate including the U.S. Navy Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs; the FA-2 Sea Harrier Jet Demonstration Team; and Dave Dacy Airshows Wing-Walker, Tony Kazian....

Salute to Veterans Air Show * US Army Golden Knights | Gold Team spent Memorial Day weekend in beautiful Columbia, MO. The town made us feel at home and started the exciting weekend with a shotgun shoot team event with a variety of show participants and other veterans...

The Commemorative Air Force hosts tour and fly event - Your Houston News | During the month of May the famous B-17 has been honoring Texas veterans at stops all around the state, and finished at Ellington Field this past weekend, joined by an array of other warbirds. Of the 12,731 B-17’s built across the US, only 9 are currently flying—including Texas Raiders, owned by the Gulf Coast Wing of the Commemorative Air Force....

Miss USA Prepares for the 2014 Reno Air Races | With the Reno Air Races scheduled for September 10th – 14th Team Miss USA has been busy preparing for the races. We have made numerous modifications to #40 this year and expect to see an improvement on lap times and a move back into the gold race...

Combat pilots and Warbirds to be featured at Oshkosh · General Aviation News | OSHKOSH, Wis. — A rare opportunity to listen to combat pilots tell their stories and view wartime aircraft will be at this year’s Warbirds in Review at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2014. EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the 62nd annual fly-in convention for the Experimental Aircraft Association, is July 28-Aug. 3 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh....

Upcoming Snyder Airshow Plans to Provide Free Flights for WWII Veterans ... - News/Talk 790 KFYO | Today, on Lubbock’s First News on KFYO, Air Boss for the upcoming Snyder Airshow Mike Delano informed listeners of a thoughtful gift provided to any WWII Veterans who attend the airshow. As the 70th Anniversary of D-day approaches, we again recognize the brave men who fought in the Second World War. However, the Snyder Airshow scheduled for June 21st is remembering these veterans in a different way. Any World War II Veteran who attends will have the...

WWII aircraft fly into Minden - The Record-Courier | Four 70-year old World War II aircraft roared out of the 1940s and landed at Minden-Tahoe Airport on Monday. Visitors swarmed the B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator, a B-25 Mitchell and a P-51 Mustang not long after they touched down at the airport....

BSB Snetterton: B-17 Flying Fortress display part of Andrews tribute * crash.net | MSV has announced it will treat spectators to a unique ten minute display from the legendary B-17 Flying Fortress as part of its tributes to the late Simon Andrews. Snetterton's history dates back to World War II with the Norfolk circuit originally an RAF airfield which, from 1943 to 1945, was home to the United States Army Air Force's famed 96th Bombardment Group. The Flying Fortress, Sally B, that will perform the honorary fly-past is stationed permanently at the nearby Imperial War Museum at Duxford and is the last remaining B17 in Europe that's still airworthy....

One Way Ticket to Duisberg * Vintage Wings of Canada | When a Maximum Effort raid was called for by Bomber Command, upwards of 600 four-engined bomber crews could find themselves converging on the turning point for the run-in to target – at night! With 600 bombers timed in groups to cross the target in just twelve minutes, disaster was just a second's miscalculation away. Vintage News contributor Jonathan Falconer takes us into the cockpit of a Canadian Halifax bomber headed to a tragic destiny–the details of which we will never know.

Local pilot competes in oldest air race - Grantcountybeat Silver City, NM – Local pilot Caroline Baldwin will soar across the country in her team's small airplane as they compete in the 2014 Air Race Classic (ARC) this summer which begins June 16 in Concord, California, and spans over 2,338 nautical miles....

Radio Control Society's Fun Scale Fly-In June 14 * Quad-Cities Online | Calling all flying enthusiasts join us for the Davenport Radio Control Society's 19th Annual Fun Scale Fly-In. This event will feature radio control models of full scale aircraft and will be held Saturday – June 14th at Norman Frye Memorial Field ...

D-Day remembered at museum · General Aviation News | SEATTLE — On Saturday, June 7, The Museum of Flight remembers the 70th anniversary of World War II’s D-Day invasion. At 1:30 p.m. there will be a presentation about the Douglas C-47 transport aircraft (DC-3 in civilian service), and how the rugged, twin-engine plane was used during the D-Day operation....

XP-82 Twin Mustang Restoration – May Update · Warbirds News | WarbirdsNews has received the latest XP-82 Twin Mustang restoration update from Tom Reilly at his workshop in Douglas, Georgia. We thought you’d enjoy seeing what they’ve been up too! Click the jump to find out more…

Fifty years young · Craig Hoyle, The DEW Line | In case you missed it, the Royal Air Force has got its first RC-135W Rivet Joint flying in the UK, six months after lead example ZZ664 had arrived at its Waddington ISTAR hub. A successor to the service’s previous Nimrod R1 fleet, the eventual complement of three Rivet Joints is on track to achieve full operational capability during 2017, the Ministry of Defence says. What’s notable here is that the “new” assets are modified from ex-US Air Force KC-135R tankers, all manufactured in 1964....

New book prompts search for Wright factory workers’ descendants · General Aviation News | DAYTON, Ohio — The National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA) will use the launch of a new book about the Wright brothers to connect with descendants of the Wright Company’s factory workers. NAHA is inviting descendants of men and women who worked in one of the two factory buildings to attend the launch of the new book by Timothy R. Gaffney, The Dayton Flight Factory, at Books and Co. at the Greene at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2...

Peter Boschert in Spangdahlem for Combined Resolve II · Peter Boschert, Photorecon.net | Airmen and seven A-10C airplanes of the Idaho Air National Guard were sent for the exercise Combined Resolve II to Spangdahlem AB, Germany. Together with the aircraft came 103 personal for the exercise, which lasted from 16th May to 30th May 2014....

Washington governor proclaims June General Aviation Appreciation Month · General Aviation News | General aviation received a boost in Washington state from Gov. Jay Inslee when he declared June 2014 as General Aviation Appreciation Month. In his proclamation, Inslee specifically recognized how general aviation airports enhance the state’s economy, transportation system, and the lives of Washingtonians....